Development and integration in Latin America

The new processes of development and integration in Latin America require a theoretical and critical effort capable of understanding the Latin American historical context as a specific social construct and, thus, demanding the construction of a Latin American social thought that gives rise to the creation of a new interpretative and analytical framework. Thus, this book seeks to aid in understanding the current situation and provide methodological tools for an autonomous and original regional project, in order to expand the continent's insertion into the capitalist interstate system and seek to reverse the subordinate trajectory of its dependent capitalism and underdevelopment within the world economy. The expectation is for a project in which the fight against inequality, the search for the deconstruction of regional asymmetries, the construction of a regional identity, and the establishment of complementarity, cooperation, and self-determination among peoples and nations represent a common goal. This is the central role of development and integration in Latin America.

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Bernardo Salgado Rodrigues is a doctoral candidate in International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a researcher at the Laboratory for the Study of Hegemony and Counter-hegemony (LEHC-UFRJ), and a member of the Working Group on Latin American and Caribbean Integration and Unity of CLACSO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences).